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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Overview: Carol Strum, who has filed a lawsuit over the DePuy ASR hip implant, told jurors on Friday that her hip pain became increasingly worse after being implanted with the recalled metal-on-metal hip device, Law360 reports. Strum’s case, which is seeking punitive damages, is the second of 10,000 lawsuits to go to trial. Among other things, she testified that the pain in her hip led to a revision surgery within three years of receiving the hip implant.

Carol Strum’s DePuy ASR lawsuit is the second of 10,000 to go to trial

Strum alleges that she received the ASR in order to relieve the pain from her arthritis but the pain only returned about a year after receiving the device

She needed revision surgery to replace the ASR with another metal-on-metal hip implant; Strum testified that her recovery was slower and that the pain worsened